When and How to Cleanse Your Deck
There may come a time when you feel your deck needs cleansing, a kind of spiritual deep facial treatment. This can be necessary if you have been performing a lot of emotional readings, reading purely for yourself over a long spell of time or reading on very heavy issues. The energy you have channelled into the cards can get stamped on them, and no matter who you read for or on what subject, the cards answer the question that has been imprinted. This is showing you that you need to purify your cards to make them fresh again.
Cleansing is not a complicated process, although you can make it as fussy as you like. Eventually, you will come up with a method that feels right to you, and the cards will feel new again in your hand and in your readings. While you are finding your own preferred way, some easy methods of cleansing for you are:
Re-ordering the deck. Simply put the cards back in numerical order, the same as when they first came to you, majors first and then minors.
Sea salt. Cover your cards with a light sprinkling of sea salt or wipe them (very gently - you don’t want to wet them or damage the cards!) with a cloth dampened with sea salt water.
Crystals. Put your cards in their storage state and cover them with a couple of crystals (your choice of crystals, whichever ones that you use or appeal to you).
In all methods, the cards should be left undisturbed for a short period of time in this state, at least overnight.
There may come a time when you feel your deck needs cleansing, a kind of spiritual deep facial treatment. This can be necessary if you have been performing a lot of emotional readings, reading purely for yourself over a long spell of time or reading on very heavy issues. The energy you have channelled into the cards can get stamped on them, and no matter who you read for or on what subject, the cards answer the question that has been imprinted. This is showing you that you need to purify your cards to make them fresh again.
Cleansing is not a complicated process, although you can make it as fussy as you like. Eventually, you will come up with a method that feels right to you, and the cards will feel new again in your hand and in your readings. While you are finding your own preferred way, some easy methods of cleansing for you are:
Re-ordering the deck. Simply put the cards back in numerical order, the same as when they first came to you, majors first and then minors.
Sea salt. Cover your cards with a light sprinkling of sea salt or wipe them (very gently - you don’t want to wet them or damage the cards!) with a cloth dampened with sea salt water.
Crystals. Put your cards in their storage state and cover them with a couple of crystals (your choice of crystals, whichever ones that you use or appeal to you).
In all methods, the cards should be left undisturbed for a short period of time in this state, at least overnight.
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